Sepia photograph with an inscription representing several houseboats on water, people sitting by entrances, and plants on the right.
View of small houseboats tied up to bank alongside Chao Phraya in Bangkok, Siam (now Thailand). A few people sit near open doorways on boats in front. European ship in water beyond. | Inscription: "View on the Chao Phya, or Meinam river Bankok, / Siam. 1874 / C.A.L." on front in ink in cursive by Charles Longfellow. | Dates and notes: 1874 as given in inscription. "Chao Phya" and "Meinam" might refer to the same river, the Chao Phraya, as meinam roughly means "river."
Archives Number: 1008.2/2.1#298
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Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Code: LONG
Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Latitude: 42.3769989013672, Longitude: -71.1264038085938
Photograph in Charles Appleton Longfellow Papers, Subcollection II. Photographic Materials, Photographs Not in Albums, Photographs Related to East Asia. (1008.002/002.001)
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